LCD plugin supporting more than 70 display types (now with full graphics support!!!) (1 Viewer)

[zion22]

Sweet with the custom char support!
Will save me some trouble now

 

[tkortell]

Here is a few caracters that people might find useful:

å

<CustomCharacters>
<CustomCharacter>
<int>0</int>
<int>4</int>
<int>0</int>
<int>14</int>
<int>1</int>
<int>15</int>
<int>17</int>
<int>15</int>
</CustomCharacter>
</CustomCharacters>

ä

<CustomCharacters>
<CustomCharacter>
<int>0</int>
<int>10</int>
<int>0</int>
<int>14</int>
<int>1</int>
<int>15</int>
<int>17</int>
<int>15</int>
</CustomCharacter>
</CustomCharacters>

ö

<CustomCharacters>
<CustomCharacter>
<int>0</int>
<int>10</int>
<int>0</int>
<int>14</int>
<int>17</int>
<int>17</int>
<int>17</int>
<int>14</int>
</CustomCharacter>
</CustomCharacters>

Å

<CustomCharacters>
<CustomCharacter>
<int>4</int>
<int>0</int>
<int>14</int>
<int>17</int>
<int>17</int>
<int>31</int>
<int>17</int>
<int>17</int>
</CustomCharacter>
</CustomCharacters>

Ä

<CustomCharacters>
<CustomCharacter>
<int>10</int>
<int>0</int>
<int>14</int>
<int>17</int>
<int>17</int>
<int>31</int>
<int>17</int>
<int>17</int>
</CustomCharacter>
</CustomCharacters>

Ö

<CustomCharacters>
<CustomCharacter>
<int>10</int>
<int>0</int>
<int>14</int>
<int>17</int>
<int>17</int>
<int>17</int>
<int>17</int>
<int>14</int>
</CustomCharacter>
</CustomCharacters>

Now all you need to do is to add these characters to the translation:

<TranslateFrom>
<string>å</string>
<string>ä</string>
<string>ö</string>
</TranslateFrom>
<TranslateTo>
<string>&#x0</string>
<string>&#x1</string>
<string>&#x2</string>
</TranslateTo>

Good work with the new improvements Joe! btw, could you send me a sample of a .bmp file for the graphic owerlay so I easaly could test it

R / tk

 

[Markus1972]

Hi,

i have an request to this Plugin. Let me explain it.
i have an IMON VFD. When i shutdown my PC via Remote, MP doesn't send an shutdown signal to my VFD so that the last message remains until i start my PC.

So my question. Is it possible that the plugin recognize an System shutdown, or suspend and automatically sends an clean to the VFD?

I don't know from this board, but at the german ther is a high demand on this.

thanks
Markus

 

[rsenden]

After quite some work I finally figured out how to drive most parts of the Asus S-Presso S1-P111 front panel display, using the Asus-supplied afpd.dll. I will probably even post a first version of an SPresso plugin some day soon.

I'm wondering whether it is possible to add support for this display to the ExternalDisplay plugin, instead of creating a seperate plugin. This might be difficult, as the display contains several parts that can be driven individually. Can anybody comment on this?

For example, the display contains 11 digits, of which the first 5 can display alphanumeric characters, last 6 only numbers. These digits can be accessed as follows:

Text_D1_4(string text): Set text for first 4 digits, autoscroll if more than 4 digits, blocks until text is fully scrolled, leaving last 4 characters on the display.
Text_D5(string text): Set text for 5th digit
Text_Time(short pos,string twonumbers): Where pos = 1-3, set the 1st, 2nd and 3rd two numbers.

Furthermore, it has several mode-icons (TV,FM,MUSIC,MP3,DVD,VCD,PHOTO), to be enabled with Icon_Mode(short mode), and play, pause, record and stereo icons that can be lit using methods like Icon_Play(bool).

Another part of the display contains volume display, some flashy rotating wheel, and CPU/system temperatures. These are usually controlled by another process.

Some methods can have side effects, for example apart from lighting the relevant mode icon, Icon_Mode will also display the selected mode as text in the first 5 digits (which can be overwritten again using the Text_* methods). There is a low-level method named writePIC that may be used to circumvent such side effects, but that would require quite a lot of analysis.

 

[BoelShit]

Hi,

i have an request to this Plugin. Let me explain it.
i have an IMON VFD. When i shutdown my PC via Remote, MP doesn't send an shutdown signal to my VFD so that the last message remains until i start my PC.

So my question. Is it possible that the plugin recognize an System shutdown, or suspend and automatically sends an clean to the VFD?

I don't know from this board, but at the german ther is a high demand on this.

thanks
Markus

My MP install sends a nice clear screen when it's shutdown... Are you really shutting down your pc or go to hibernate or standby. I know there were some issues with hibernate...

Perhaps trying the other option in de config of lcd plugin : Soundgraph iMON USB v1.0 will do the trick...

 

[tkortell]

Hi all,
a big hand to Joe for this fabulous extension.

As lots of people share the same problem creating accented characters, perhaps we shall collect the efforts at one place ?

I have some small WEB-space where we could collect them. Just send me a PM with your <CustomCharacters> section out of ExternalDisplay.xml and I'll post the link.

I'll start working on the German "Umlauts" at the weekend, provided it is still that much raining as it is today....

Regards
/Gerd

Good idea let us know when you have this WEB-space hocked up so we can start sending you some custom characters

Regards / Tomas

 

[knutinh]

I think that accented character sets should be included with the MP install. Perhaps the external display GUI can detect:
1. A display with limited character set but custom character feature is selected
2. The media portal language is ...
3. Dump the following characters to display...

I dunno if this is a lot of work. Especially figuring out what accented characters are used in each language.

-k

 

[JoeDalton]

Good work with the new improvements Joe! btw, could you send me a sample of a .bmp file for the graphic owerlay so I easaly could test it

Thomas,
You should be able to find the images I used to produce the screenshots in SVN in the following folder:
mediaportal\xbmc\bin\Release\thumbs\ExternalDisplay

For other readers: these images are only for a 160x128 display

Joe

 

[tkortell]

Thomas,
You should be able to find the images I used to produce the screenshots in SVN in the following folder:
mediaportal\xbmc\bin\Release\thumbs\ExternalDisplay

For other readers: these images are only for a 160x128 display

Joe

Thanks Joe,
I found the pictures and will test it as soon as posible.

For other readers: If you realy want to enjoy Joes plugin to the maximum but don't have acces to a nice graphical display, send me a PM, I have a few more of these displays (exactly the same display Joe is using when develouping this plugin) for sale.

Regards / Tomas

 

[MrMad]

Seems to be a bug in the new progress bar code. If I have a movie that is 1h 23m 34s long the progress bar incorrectly reaches 100% already at 1m 23s...
(using an SVN from about a week ago).
Also would be nice if IsNull/NotNull could be used in TextProgressBar (don't want to show progress when paused).
Keep up the good work!